We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
"We don't think we have the right kind of tools to help decision makers plan for the future," said Jack Fellows, the vice president for corporate affairs of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of 71 universities.
... I was reminded of a conversation I had with Senator John McCain about climate and American politics in 2005, while we were taping an interview for the Discovery-Times documentary “Arctic Rush.” Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said flatly that democracies don’t do well with this kind of long-term, looming threat.
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David’s story may hold some evidence that this is true. First he describes how a Republican maneuver forced debate to stop for a reading of the entire 492-page document. Then he describes an earlier long statement on climate by Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who for years has been giving floor speeches on climate, challenging claims of looming calamity and asserting that curbs on carbon dioxide would cripple the economy.
Then comes a portrait of democracy inaction (no typo): ...
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This chaos is killing me. - And I want to be free. Don't you want to be free?
... democracies don’t do well with this kind of long-term, looming threat.
Hear, Hear.
This is the very heart of the problem that we face. There needs to be overwhelming public understanding of this issue, and ExxonMobil et al. have an easy job to convince politicians to kill our great grandchildren.
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